Posts Tagged ‘support’

Ostomyland is delighted to welcome the Celebration Ostomy Support Belt company to the site with it’s own page in our Manufacturers – Accessories section.

The Celebration Ostomy Support Belt is a product that will be of interest to those who are looking for a belt which can make their life with their ostomy appliance an easier experience. The Celebration Ostomy Support Belt offers it’s wearers a comfortable and secure experience with a leak proof fit as well as hernia support.

Ostomyland is delighted to welcome PouchWear to our company pages section. Found under the Manufacturers – Accessories section the PouchWearpage introduces you to the company and their products such as their flagship Ostomy Bag Holder, and newer products such as the ostomy support pillow and their range of shower covers and more.

Ever since our first year online there has been an ostomy support chat room on the Ostomyland website. It was very much our defining and stand out feature in 1998/1999 when onlineostomy support was in it’s infancy. Ever since it has always been an important part of our support features.

We’re very pleased to be able to announce that we are relaunching our chat room today with a service from Rumbletalk which allows us to welcome chatters from both this website and our Facebook support group to come and chat together. The new chat client can be accessed easily from either computers or via mobile devices such as cell phones or tablets.

As always the chat room is open 24/7 for impromptu support chat or off topic fun. We also have a planned weekly meeting every week on Saturday evenings at 8PM UK time (GMT or GMT+1) which is currently approximately 3pm Eastern USA.

Joining the chat room

No registration is currently required as guests are allowed, however we plan to keep reviewing guess access in the future in case of abuse. We respectfully encourage all chatters to login with their Facebook or Twitter IDs.

So if you are looking for ostomy support online why not pop into our chat room on Saturday evening?

Issue number 32 (Winter 2014) of the ColostomyAssociationTidings member’s magazine is hitting doormats around the country as this is being posted. This hugely popular British ostomy support charity magazine is dedicated to the support of Colostomates, their families and their carers. This edition has 64 glossy A4 pages and the CA mails the magazine out free to all it’s members on a quarterly basis.

Have you ever wanted to create your own ostomy support group but didn’t know how to go about it? Or you are lost for ideas on what to do once it is created? You have?! That’s great because I have some news which will be of interest to you!

UK ostomy support charity Ostomy Lifestyle offers a very well received and highly praised course to introduce you to what makes a great ostomy support group and how you can go about creating one for your local area. Called The Nuts and Bolts of Running a Support Group it’s a free six hour/one day course to attend thanks to the generous funding by the national lottery and Ostomy Lifestyle offer the course around various locations in England. You do not have to be currently in the process of setting up a group, and even if you are running an established group you are eligible to attend the course where you might pick up an idea or two to make your group even better than it already is.

Places are still available for various dates this year so if you are interested why not take a peek at the course’s page on the Ostomy Lifestyle website which contains lots more information as well as a list of available dates for 2013 at - http://www.ostomylifestyle.org/content/training-courses.

Once your group is up and running drop us a line here at Ostomyland and we’ll be delighted to promote it for you.